A Prayer For The Fallen WTC Terrorist Attack

The Day After 9.11.01

That's what it's been named from what we watched on CNN. So vague in any general conversation that it would provoke any inattentive listener to ask, "the day after what, when?"

Those three words which have been spoken globally and in every tongue ... will never be spoken ... or heard ... by or from any human being now alive who has witnessed yesterdays brutal mass murder, the most brutal mass murder by terrorists that mankind has witnessed since the beginning of Creation. Yes, Creation!

If that offends one person on this earth, I offer NO apology. I offer it not only for myself, but for any man, woman or child over this world if they choose to allow me to speak on their behalf.

Our Great Nation was founded by our forefathers, on the very basic principles which led them from their Motherland to become THE GREAT NATION they built in faith that they too were in faith, building upon in their Biblical beliefs and principles.

Yes they made mistakes and many great ones, as we, us humans as a whole do! What's so puzzling to me is why do only more and far more devastating errors continue to be made and will be throughout the history of mankind and will do so until he destroys himself ... and all in the name of so many different gods?!?! For those errors that our forefathers made I personally offer my MOST SINCERE apology.
I offer it not only for myself, but for any man, woman or child over this world if they choose to allow me to speak on their behalf.

There was a time I walked in full communion with the Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah, right here on earth. It was in that era of my life that I to this day believe I would hardly need my legs to get to very far places in my physical walks as well. Almost five years has passed since I have allowed myself to experience that quality of life on a daily basis ... renewed fresh each morning almost as if there was complete re-energizing during my sleeping hours.

It's so human to be human! I chuckle at myself in disgust when I realize how that wellness, which once flowed abundantly throughout my heart, mind, body and soul...has slowly trickled to less than a drip a day in comparison.
Daily I spent so much time in my soul searches...looking for where and how and why? Simply because it was too easy for me to just accept the simple truth.

The eyes of my soul chose to go to sleep for a while the day I said goodbye to a most gracious woman of the Lord, and watch her go home for eternity. My dear Mother-In-Law, the woman whom I will always love as much as if she were my own.

He is calling me back. He is calling all of His people back. He loves us, He made us, and He desires His children to choose to come running back to Him. Yes, I may be a new millennium prodigal which is how I learned the hard way, that our Nation too, has become a prodigal.

We as a Nation have taken our eyes off of our Father, Who is in Heaven...Blessed is His Name. His new Kingdom will come, just as He has promised. He desires our pleas be sent up to Him to do His will here on earth, just as He does in Heaven.

Forgive us Father Creator, for our sins individually and collectively forgive us as we try to learn Your forgiveness, that we may be better equipped to exercise the same toward those who have sinned against us.
Thank you Father for the food we took for granted before this great evil befell our homeland.
Lead us away from any and all thoughts and temptations of vengeful thinking Father, because it truly does belong to You and You alone. Deliver US, this Great Nation Father, from this extreme evil which has stricken the very hearts of all of your children globally.

Bring those who are responsible for these mass murders before the officials that You have set in place to govern over all the earth.
Give those officials abundant discernment in the ability to bring about a swift and just resolve. Give us the grace we need to become more culturally tolerant and acceptant of others and the wisdom to see where any ignorance in any of your people globally will lead us.

Father send Your Comforter to all the families, friends, loved ones and their enemies too, so that the peace that surpasses ALL human understanding will Shroud them throughout this devastating trial of hope, loss, grief, endurance, keep our minds and bodies safe from evil. O Lord. Give us the strength to stand firm and not falter as a Nation and Thank You Father in advanace....for we know you answer prayer, in accordance to the ways in which we supplicate Your will for us.

Keep Israel strong Father as You have been faithful throughout the ages in so doing. Keep Your people strong Father for it is in accordance to Your will we send these prayers up and with the hope of surrendering more of our own personal will to You Lord as we too, grow to Trust in You once more.

Thank You Lord God and Master, for Your Son Jesus Christ, for providing us the most precious and perfect Sacrifice, which by in so doing, You Father, stopped cold and dead, any long term plans by the evil father of lies. Thank You, Most Holy of All that is or shall ever be. For Yours is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory...forever and ever and ever Amen.
Author Name withheld by request
September 12,2001

Hit the buildings, Missed America . . . .

An open letter to a terrorist:

Well, you hit the World Trade Center, but you missed America. You hit the Pentagon, but you missed America.

You used helpless American bodies, to take
out other American bodies, but like a poor marksman, you STILL missed
America.

Why? Because of something you guys will never understand. America isn't about a building or two, not about financial centers, not about military centers, America isn't about a place, America isn't even about a bunch of bodies. America is about an IDEA. An idea, that you can go someplace where you can earn as much as you can figure out how to, live for the most part,
like you envisioned living, and pursue happiness. (No guarantees that you'll reach it, but you can sure try!)

Go ahead and whine your terrorist whine, and chant your terrorist litany: "If you can not see my point, then feel my pain."

This concept is alien to Americans. We live in a country where we don't have to see your point. But you're free to have one. We don't have to listen to your speech. But you're free to say one. Don't know where you got the strange idea that everyone has to agree with you. We don't agree with each other in this country, almost as a matter of pride. We're a collection of
guys that don't agree, called States. We united our individual states to protect ourselves from tyranny in the world. Another idea, we made up on the spot. You CAN make it up as you go, when it's your country.

If you're free enough.

Yeah, we're fat, sloppy, easy-going goofs most of the time. That's an unfortunate image to project to the world, but it comes of feeling free and easy about the world you live in. It's unfortunate too, because people start to forget that when you attack Americans, they tend to fight like a cornered
badger. The first we knew of the War of 1812, was when England burned Washington D.C. to the ground. Didn't t! urn out like England thought it was going to, and it's not going to turn out like you think, either. Sorry, but you're not the first bully on our shores, just the most recent.

No Marquis of Queensbury rules for Americans, either. We were the FIRST and so far, only country in the world to use nuclear weapons in anger. Horrific idea, nowadays? News for you bucko, it was back then too, but we used it anyway. Only had two of them in the whole world and we used 'em both.

Grandpa Jones worked on the Manhattan Project.
Told me once, that right up until they threw the switch, the physicists were still arguing over whether the Uranium alone would fission, or whether it would start a fissioning chain reaction that would eat everything. But they
threw the switch anyway, because we had a War to win. Does that tell you something about American Resolve?

So who just declared War on us? It would be nice to point to some realestate, like the good old days. Unfortunately, we're probably at war with random camps, in far-flung places. Who think they're safe. Just like the Barbary Pirates did. They were wrong. So are you. Better start sleeping with one eye open.

There's a spirit that tends to take over people who come to this country,
looking for opportunity, looking for liberty, looking for freedom. Even if they misuse it. The Marielistas that Castro emptied out of his prisons, were overjoyed to find out how much freedom there was. First thing they did when they hit our shores, was run out and buy guns. The ones that didn't end up
dead, ended up in prisons. It was a big problem then (especially in south Florida). We solved that problem. As for you, you're only the newest problem, not the first.

You guys seem to be incapable of understanding that we don't live in America, America lives in US! American Spirit is what it's called. And killing a few thousand of us, or a few million of us, won't change it. Most of the time! , it's a pretty happy-go-lucky kind of Spirit.

Until we're crossed in a cowardly manner, then it becomes an entirely different kind of Spirit.

Wait until you see what we do with that Spirit, this time.

Sleep tight, if you can. We're coming.

Author
Charles Brennan, Windrose 18, So. Florida
Sept 11, 2001